Kevin Mackey
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| Kevin Mackey | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | Saint Anselm College | |
| Sport | Basketball | |
| Born | August 21, 1946 | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 142-69 (.673) | |
| Championships | ||
| AMCU-8 Regular Season Championship (1985, 1986) AMCU-8 Tournament Championship (1986) USBL Championship (1997, 1998, 1999) IBA Championship (1999) |
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| Awards | ||
| AMCU-8 Coach of the Year (1985, 1986) USBL Coach of the Year (1997, 1999) IBA Coach of the Year (1999) |
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| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1983-1990 1991 1998-2000 |
Cleveland State Miami Tropics Atlantic City Seagulls Mansfield Hawks |
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Kevin Mackey (born August 21, 1946) is a former head coach of men's basketball at Cleveland State University. Although several low moments of his life were made public, Mackey was also a popular symbol of success when his CSU Vikings upset the Indiana Hoosiers to make the Sweet 16 in the 1986 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
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[edit] Sports career
Mackey coached at Cleveland State University from 1983 to 1990 and posted a record of 144 wins and 67 losses. His teams made one NCAA and two National Invitation Tournament appearances and averaged more than 20 wins per season. Following his arrest in 1990 (see below) Mackey left CSU but went on to a successful career in Minor league basketball. In 1991, he was a mid-season replacement coach for the Miami Tropics of the United States Basketball League and led the team to the title game. In 1996 he coached the Portland (Maine) Mountain Cats to the Final Four of the USBL. Following his stint with the Mountain Cats, Mackey captured three consecutive USBL Championships, with the Atlantic City Seagulls, something no other coach in the USBL has done.
He also coached Trenton New Jersey of the I.B.C., Jacksonville of the USBL and was National Director of Scouting for Hoops Global and Director of Player Personnel for Pro Basketball USA. In 1999, he again surfaced as a head coach, this time in professional basketball where he led the Mansfield Hawks to the International Basketball Association championship in his first season.
In 2004, he was a first-year scout for the Indiana Pacers of the NBA [1].
[edit] Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Cleveland State (AMCU-8) (1983–1990) | |||||||||
| 1983-1984 | Cleveland State | 14-16 | 4-10 | 7th | |||||
| 1984-1985 | Cleveland State | 21-8 | 11-3 | 1st | |||||
| 1985–1986 | Cleveland State | 29-4 | 13-1 | 1st | NCAA, Sweet Sixteen | ||||
| 1986-1987 | Cleveland State | 25-8 | 10-4 | 2nd | NIT, Second Round | ||||
| 1987-1988 | Cleveland State | 22-8 | 11-3 | 2nd | NIT, Second Round | ||||
| 1988-1989 | Cleveland State | 16-12 | N/A | N/A | |||||
| 1989-1990 | Cleveland State | 15-13 | N/A | N/A | |||||
| Cleveland State: | 142-69 | 49-21 | |||||||
| Total: | 142-69 | ||||||||
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National Champion Conference Regular Season Champion Conference Tournament Champion |
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[edit] Controversial arrest
Mackey was a rising star in the collegiate ranks, however, his promising career at Cleveland State imploded in dramatic fashion on a summer night in 1990. Cleveland Police detectives had gotten a tip from a street informant that Mackey was inside a crack house. Police cruisers were called to the address. Local TV stations monitoring the police radio had also arrived. Mackey emerged with a woman (allegedly a prostitute) on his arm, drove off in his Lincoln Town Car that was stopped by police immediately, with cameras rolling. Mackey was arrested for DUI and a judge ordered him to undergo 60 days of drug rehabilitation.[1]
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